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Chancen und Risiken von Methoden zur Entnahme und Speicherung von CO₂ aus der Atmosphäre
(2023)TA-SWISS / Zentrum für Technologiefolgen-AbschätzungMit dem Pariser Klimaabkommen von 2015 hat sich die Staatengemeinschaft verpflichtet, die globale Erwärmung auf deutlich unter 2°C zu begrenzen. Der Weltklimarat geht inzwischen aber davon aus, dass die bisher beschlossenen Massnahmen zur Reduzierung der Treibhausgasemissionen nicht genügen, um den menschengemachten Klimawandel in den Griff zu bekommen. Technologische Lösungen könnten dabei helfen, das Netto-Null-Ziel bis 2050 trotzdem ...Monograph -
Governance of radioactive waste, special waste and carbon storage
(2023)Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and EnvironmentDeep geological repositories of nuclear waste, long-term landfills of special waste and the substantive storage of carbon dioxide to relieve the world’s climate from excessive system change are intricate and contentious policy fields with an impact of decades to hundreds of thousands of years. This work aims to explore how society and technology can set up and implement sustainable ways—in the long run—to cope with the issues. They are ...Monograph -
A Proof that Artificial Neural Networks Overcome the Curse of Dimensionality in the Numerical Approximation of Black–Scholes Partial Differential Equations
(2023)Memoirs of the American Mathematical SocietyMonograph -
The Triple Folly
(2023)The Triple Folly recounts the rich collaboration between artist Thomas Demand, architects Caruso St John, and textile makers Kvadrat which produced an astonishing new pavilion for Kvadrat’s Ebeltoft campus. The basis of the building is three found paper objects – a legal pad, a paper plate, and a soda jerk hat – which Demand brought to Caruso St John with the simple question ‘Can you make this into architecture?’ In response, the architects ...Monograph -
Physics against cancer
(2023)Modern proton therapy is saving the lives of more and more children and adults with difficult-to-treat cancers. The spectacular rise of proton therapy might never have happened if it were not for the pioneering work of the Paul Scherrer Institute – a Swiss centre founded to explore physics and the nature of matter, but which turned its understanding of basic science into applications that would benefit mankind. This is the place that ...Monograph -
The second moment theory of families of L-functions - The case of twisted Hecke L-functions
(2023)Memoirs of the American Mathematical SocietyFor a fairly general family of L-functions, we survey the known consequences of the existence of asymptotic formulas with power-saving error term for the (twisted) first and second moments of the central values in the family. We then consider in detail the important special case of the family of twists of a fixed cusp form by primitive Dirichlet characters modulo a prime q, and prove that it satisfies such formulas. We derive arithmetic ...Monograph -
Viruses in all Dimensions
(2023)Microorganisms, viruses, and computer programs encode all the information necessary to reproduce and spread themselves. Yet these mechanisms are amazingly similar in the animate world, in the world of viruses, and even in the world of technical systems. The book shows how great the parallels are between these various animate and inanimate replicating systems and what they are based on. The excursion also leads into the fascinating world ...Monograph -
ANOVA and Mixed Models
(2023)The R SeriesANOVA and Mixed Models: A Short Introduction Using R provides both the practitioner and researcher a compact introduction to the analysis of data from the most popular experimental designs. Based on knowledge from an introductory course on probability and statistics, the theoretical foundations of the most important models are introduced. The focus is on an intuitive understanding of the theory, common pitfalls in practice, and the ...Monograph -
Der Stromzähler
(2023)InterferenzenÜberall in Europa nahmen ab den 1880er-Jahren kommunale und private Elektrizitätswerke den Betrieb auf. Sie sorgten für die Beleuchtung öffentlicher Strassen und repräsentativer Bauten, verkauften die elektrische Energie insbesondere aber auch an Privatpersonen. Die Elektrifizierung des Haushalts, die damit einsetzte, brachte nebst Annehmlichkeiten verschiedene technische, ökonomische und soziale Probleme mit sich. Sie kreisten um die ...Monograph -
Financing the Future
(2023)This book explains how the governance and operational model of multilateral development banks shapes their behavior as a unique class of international organization. The book proposes a theoretical framework—based around MDB governance arrangements and the financial imperatives built into the MDB model—that permits a systematic analysis of the entire range of existing MDBs, regardless of their size and membership. Based on extensive document ...Monograph